HRS 0089- ANNOTATIONS

Privatization; contracting of government services with the private sector (repealed June 30, 2007). L 2001, c 90, §2.

Applicability of Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure, see HRCP rule 81(b)(12).

Chapter 92F not a "conflicting statute on the same subject matter" as this chapter, within the meaning of §89-19, and thus is not preempted by this chapter or any collective bargaining agreement negotiated under it. 83 H. 378, 927 P.2d 386.

Under this chapter, a public employee pursuing an individual grievance exhausts his or her administrative remedies when the employee completes every step available to the employee in the grievance process and a request to the employee's exclusive bargaining representative to proceed to the last grievance step, which only the representative can undertake, would be futile. 97 H. 528, 40 P.3d 930.